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December 15, 2025 “Robot, make me a chair”

Computer-aided design (CAD) systems are tried-and-true tools used to design many of the physical objects we use each day. But CAD software requires extensive expertise to master, and many tools...

December 14, 2025 Deep-learning model predicts how fruit flies form, cell by cell

Deep-learning model predicts how fruit flies form, cell by cell

December 14, 2025 MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Inventors for 2025

MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Inventors for 2025

December 11, 2025 New MIT program to train military leaders for the AI age

New MIT program to train military leaders for the AI age

December 9, 2025 Vine-inspired robotic gripper gently lifts heavy and fragile objects

Vine-inspired robotic gripper gently lifts heavy and fragile objects

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Bio-Inspired Robotics

MIT Mechanical Engineering students in Professor Sangbae Kim’s class explore why certain physical traits have evolved in animals in the natural world, then extract those useful principles, which are applicable to robotic systems, to solve such challenges as manipulation and locomotion in novel and interesting ways.

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A Cleaner Burn

Millions of people die each year as a result of soot or smoke inhalation from these wood-burning cookstoves. A team of students from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and MIT D-Lab are helping a start-up in Uganda manufacture charcoal briquettes that produce a cleaner burn, minimizing these health risks.

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Next Generation Electronics

Jeehwan Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is using his background in materials science to build a physical neural network and produce cheap semiconductor wafers – technologies that could help bring the artificial intelligence power of super computers to handheld devices.

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